re: A bad experience at Pastime yesterday

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You just explained why extra gravy isn't available. You know this because you worked there. Do you expect the customer to know this? (Randy expects the customer to read the website before ordering, apparently, which is ridiculous.) Both you and Randy make it sound blastphemous to ask for extra gravy. The OP wasn't given an explanation. He was simply told "no". The OP and his wife got a dry poboy anyway. Guess they were low on the au jus that's valuable to the restaurant.

Good Lord in Heaven, hasn't anyone heard of the magic phrase "I'm sorry" (although pookiebear comes close).

Pastime is a bar that serves food. Offer to buy the OP a beer, suggest a few other places that might better fit the OP's expectations, share a story about the old times in BR, and move on.

FWIW, I'm right down the wheelhouse of Pastime's target demo: old enough to remember when the bridge over their heads wasn't there. Sheesh.

If it's that valuable, havin extra would be good for business.

Doctor Technical should know this.

Does the sloppy poboy get you extra gravy? If you say "sloppy", have you used a magic word that gets you more of the valuable gravy? I don't understand that suggestion as opposed to just asking for extra gravy.

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Does the sloppy poboy get you extra gravy? If you say "sloppy", have you used a magic word that gets you more of the valuable gravy? I don't understand that suggestion as opposed to just asking for extra gravy.

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I don't see a "sloppy" option on their online menu.

It does say that they get French Bread delivered daily from New Orleans.

Maybe it's in the FAQs or you just have to be in the know.

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So pasttime is the johnny's of BR?

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I dont think anyone here said Pasttime had the best pizza in the South, did they??

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I was approached by a guest in our hotel, he and his wife found blood on the sheets in the bed their kids were sleeping in and ants in their room. They wanted their room FREE FOR ALL 3 nights. I radioed my Ex Housekeeper to bring a spray bottle of water and my Chief Maintenance man to bring a luggage cart and meet me in Room.... He was shocked that I was going to his room right then. When we walked in we did see ants and the trail led to the hidden trash can full of McDonalds bags. When I asked my Ex Housekeeper to spray the "Blood" (we all know dried blood doesn't come out of white sheets) with the water bottle. The stain was ketchup not to mention one of those little suckers had ketchup all over his shirt. The couple was shocked when I turned to them and said my Chief maintenance-Cliff and I will help you pack up we brought a luggage cart. They said "Cool" we're moving to another room? I said "No, we here to help you check out of my hotel and I will notify the surrounding hotels of your arrival. This is just one story out of thousands I can tell you about dealing with the public. And I'm sure you have way more than I. I'm a firm believer-THE CUSTOMER IS NOT ALWAYS RIGHT! Randy, after 40 plus years being in the restaurant business and dealing with the public I commend you and thank you!

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It's on the Pastime FB page.

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after reading some of the quotes yall have put in here i feel like tony when he gets the phone call about their little problem.

you wanna go to war, you wanna go to war?


For real though, I cant believe some of the quoted stuff in here. No facebook here so I cant pull up the actual page but what has been said in here is laughable at best.

I'm lazy because I didnt write my order down? No thats not the case at all. Ill assume this response is from one of the dinosaurs that grace the place and keep it afloat. Gosh darnit these youngsters these days are the laziest patoots to ever walk the planet! Get real. The ordering place was empty minus a guy picking up something or getting a dressing or something so it's not like I was holding up a line. The lady could have said oh here at Pastime we let you write down what you want and we take it from there. Instead she acted like a complete bitch and I was two seconds away from saying screw her and this place but we complied and I wrote down my order of pizza and fried jalapenos.

Some of the owners remarks just reassures that I will never go to the place again and if the name ever comes up in convo, I'll be sure to bash the hell out of said owner and restaurant.

TD is just a big rumor mill? LOL. This board is about as factual as they come in regards to local restaurants and their food. Yelp and the others are littered with garbage responses and its not an accurate gauge of the quality of food at a place.



Yes the place has been open forever and it seems to be surviving on that nostalgia crowd. Sooner or later that crowd will be in the dirt and what you have left is people like us that didnt grow up around the place going to get pizza after the t-ball game. Also probably not as hard to stay afloat when there looks to be little to no overhead in the place. Im sure it looks the same as it did in 1970, minus all the framed lsu baseball championship newspapers on the wall that every restaurant in the city seems to have. I also love that theres a sink in the dining area where workers are going to wash their hands or dump drinks down the drain. Maybe you can cut back on the fund for buying these



and fix that area around the exposed sink so I dont have to see JJ from the back spit in it while he walks by with empty drink cups. Just use some napkins for your appetizer holders, whats the difference anyway? Ole mee maw and pop pop wont give or shite or probably even notice. Nostalgia baby!

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The owner, Bob Wesley, joked many times that he decided that in order to ensure accuracy of the customer's order have them write down what they wanted and if the food order came out wrong he could pull their ticket and the explain to the customer this is what you ordered.

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Well holy hell. For a second I thought I read it as Brad Wesley



That response would have made more sense coming from this guy. If the food came out wrong, youre going to go rummaging through the tickets to prove them wrong? Holy shite what kind of backwards business model is that? Ill assume Mr Wesley's response would be something like well our 70 years in business proves you wrong. That sounds like something some snotty 12 year old brat would do. My father owned a business for 25 years which wasnt a restaurant but a similar style business of serving customers nonstop all day long. If I mentioned this little nugget of business advice to him, he would probably laugh at me and say shite I hope your brother takes over the business.


Kind of a long post and I think that was only from reading page 2. The stuff on page 3 and page 4 just confirms that the owner and staff are imbeciles.

I try really hard to only judge people by how they act towards me. But not only do I disagree with his business practices, he also seems like an a-hole. But 70 years, amirite?